"The hours available for learning are far more limited than they initially appear" (Weinstein et. al., 203). Flipped classroom
The newest initiative schools are taking to building more practice and experiment time in the classroom is with a flipped classroom model. The model utilizes Internet technology to leverage classroom learning. Therefore, teachers spend less time lecturing and more time problems solving with students. Typically what happens is students are assigned to view teacher created videos as "homework assignments" and then come in to class prepared to practice the content. Hence the classroom has been flipped with traditional instruction being at home via videos on the web and then assigned problems that exercise students’ mastery of the content in the classroom where teachers can assist. Teachers who feel pressured to fit both instruction and practice into a 45 minute may want to try this model. Just be sure that it is approved by your principal or superintendent first.
Doodle and Tungle.me
Finding difficulty scheduling Parent teacher conferences, Professional learning community or IEP meetings around everyone’s schedule? Well stop wasting time sending countless emails and making numerous phone calls trying to get everyone in the same place at once and let Doodle and Tungle.me do it for you! Doodle and Tungle.me are scheduling sites that are free and easy to use by all. All you have to do is simply name your event or meeting, create times and dates that you are available to hold your event or meeting and then send the link that is made out to those via email or social networking sites to those you are trying to schedule with. As a recipient of the link, open it and check off or highlight (depending on if you use doodle or Tungle,me) when you are available. The senders will receive a link that will allow them to check the results and automatically the day and time that most people are available to attend will be highlighted. Doodle and Tungle.me are great for scheduling meeting with PLC's, parent teacher conferences, IEP meetings, club meetings, just about anything! You could also encourage your students to use it when they are trying to plan a get together for a group project.
Flipped classroom
The newest initiative schools are taking to building more practice and experiment time in the classroom is with a flipped classroom model. The model utilizes Internet technology to leverage classroom learning. Therefore, teachers spend less time lecturing and more time problems solving with students. Typically what happens is students are assigned to view teacher created videos as "homework assignments" and then come in to class prepared to practice the content. Hence the classroom has been flipped with traditional instruction being at home via videos on the web and then assigned problems that exercise students’ mastery of the content in the classroom where teachers can assist. Teachers who feel pressured to fit both instruction and practice into a 45 minute may want to try this model. Just be sure that it is approved by your principal or superintendent first.
Meet the Man who is Rebooting the School- by Kayla Webly, TIME Magazine U.S. July 9, 2012
Salman Kahn Article in TIME Magazine U.S.- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2118298,00.html
Read the whole article on school leadership 2.0 -http://www.schoolleadership20.com/profiles/blogs/flipped-classroom-time-magazine-reboot-the-school
Doodle and Tungle.me
Finding difficulty scheduling Parent teacher conferences, Professional learning community or IEP meetings around everyone’s schedule? Well stop wasting time sending countless emails and making numerous phone calls trying to get everyone in the same place at once and let Doodle and Tungle.me do it for you! Doodle and Tungle.me are scheduling sites that are free and easy to use by all. All you have to do is simply name your event or meeting, create times and dates that you are available to hold your event or meeting and then send the link that is made out to those via email or social networking sites to those you are trying to schedule with. As a recipient of the link, open it and check off or highlight (depending on if you use doodle or Tungle,me) when you are available. The senders will receive a link that will allow them to check the results and automatically the day and time that most people are available to attend will be highlighted. Doodle and Tungle.me are great for scheduling meeting with PLC's, parent teacher conferences, IEP meetings, club meetings, just about anything! You could also encourage your students to use it when they are trying to plan a get together for a group project.